Chief Judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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Alex Kozinski
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FROM Alex Kozinski
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Federal Judge Says Firing Squad Makes More Sense than Lethal Injection In Oklahoma, Ohio and, most recently, Arizona, executioners have botched the administration of lethal injections, creating spectacles of agony that some people call “torture.” “Using drugs… to carry out executions is a misguided effort,” according to the Chief Judge of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In a recent opinion, Judge Alex Kozinski wrote that, “If we as a society want to carry out executions, we should be willing to face that the fact that the state is committing a horrendous brutality on our behalf.” Judge Kozinski joins us.
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